Improvement in harvesters



l. I. HITE.

Harvester.

No. 13,226. Patented July 10, 1855.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

I. I. HITE, OF \VHlTE POST, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO \V'. F. PAGETT.

v lMPlQOVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 13,226, dated July 10, 1855.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAAo IRVINE HI'IE, of White Post, in the county of Clarke and State of Virginia, have made a new and useful improvement in U. H. McOormicks reaping-machines as patented in 1834 by attaching thereto a seat for the person to ride on whose duty it is to rake the grain from the platform on which it is deposited by the reel, of which the following is a specification.

. Previous to the date of my invention it was the practice in using these machines for the person employed to rake the grain off the platform to walk alongside ot' the machinea task of great difticulty, producing great fatigue, and very imperfect and unsatisfactory in its results.

In the accompanying drawing I have given a view of the reaping machine known as McCormicks, with my rakers seat attached thereto. The seat is mounted on wheels andoccupies an angle formed in therear right corner of the platform A, on which the cut grain is deposited and carried until asufficient quantity has accumulated for a sheaf. B is the rakers seat on Wheels and so connected to the platform that it will follow the same in passing across elevations and depressions and in passing around corners. The seat is so constructed that the raker can conveniently and easily perform this work as well standing as sitting.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is- The combination of a rakers seat or stand with McOorinicks machine for cutting grain and gathering it upon a platform.

In testiinou y whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

ISAAC IRVINE HITE. Witnesses:

JOHN Dow, (J. F. KNIGHT. 

